Five Shrine City

I started with a spiritual leader (Isabella) and a starting city with a lot of seafood, so I decided to see how many shrines I could get in one city.

This was on Noble difficulty, with 18 civs crammed into a large Terra map.

I started out researching the for the first religions, buddism and hinduism. I would have nothing for workers to do, so instead of building workers I started cranking out work boats.

I eventually got buddism and hinduism, and then shifted to getting things like bronze working and pottery, and then beeline to alphabet. Most of my production in my city was from chopping down forests or using slavery to turn my population into production.

Despite the detours, I got to monotheism, theology, and code of laws first. I still only had the one city at this point, so they all went in my capital. In 30 bc or so I finally got my first great prophet, so I built a shirne for the most popular religion.

I started researching philosophy, but it was going to take like 60 turns, and I really needed to expand. I had no access to most resources, incuding any metal, so I had to build chariots, and I finally started going after my nearest neighbor. I did get Taoism first, but of course in one of the captured cities.

I'm still playing this - I'm anxious to see how much gold I can get out of my capital by the end of it.

That's like so totaly crazy!!!!:crazy:
I've never heard of anybody getting 5 religions & all of them have the same holy city!!! And like to make it more awsome you got the sixth religion!!! Could we have a screen shot?

Actually, this guy got 5 in the same city - and eventually won the game with a diplomatic victory - all without building any military units!

http://www.compoundeye.net/civ/nonviolent/

In my game, which I'm still playing, I also wound up with the seventh religion (Islam/Divine Right). Kind of a waste, though, as they put it in the city I designated as my military production city. I doubt I'll ever be able to build a bank or even a market there.

It's really not too hard to get all the religions, at least on an easy difficulty like noble, even if you've got 18 civs. You just need to start with a spiritual civ, and go for meditation then polytheism (the other spiritual civs tend to do the same, so you can beat them to both - you'll lose hinduism if one of the AI civs starts with polytheism instead). Sometimes monotheism can be tough to get first, as well as code of laws, but it doesn't take too terribly much luck to get all those first. The AIs usually take a long time to get to Theology, Philosophy, and Divine Right, so those are usually pretty easy to take.

Of course, to get 5 (or 6 or 7) in the same city, you have to be content to play with just your capital for a loooong time. I probably could have held out for at least a sixth religion, but I had no metal in my capital, so I really needed to go capture a city with access to metal or I'd never be able to break out.

My city is really cranking out the great prophets, and I've managed to get the shrines for all five religions. I've got my slider cranked to 100% science but I'm still clearing about 100 gold/turn - all from the gold production in this city. The city's benefited a lot from my recent capture of Parthenon and Colossus from Ghandi (RIP).

I don't know how to post screenshots, but I'll try to figure it out and post something in a couple weeks when I get back from vacation.

Screenshots can be posted by go to the advanced poster thingy scrolling down until you gat to buttonm that sayes "Manage Attachments", click it, now you should get a new window & it should all be down hill from there.

Getting all seven religions is fairly easy if you start with Mysticism. Research Meditation -> Polytheism -> Masonry -> Monotheism -> Priesthood -> Writing -> Code of Laws, use Oracle to get Philosophy as free tech. Use 1st Great Prophet to discover Theology, 2nd GP to discover 2/3rds of Divine Right. Building Stonehenge also makes the first GP appear faster.

The tricky part is getting Hinduism -- if a Spiritual AI decides to research Polytheism first, you're scr3wd.

I did this with Isabella as a One-City Challenge, but ultimately lost when Mansa built the spaceship. Due to bad GP management, I only managed to build six of the seven shrines.

OK, I think I've figured out how to capture and post screen shots. Here I am just at the end of the game. The gold generated here is paying for my whole empire, which is a huge and not particularly well run thing (I haven't built many courthouses). I'm also maintaining a huge army, under pacificsm to increase the gpp's. I was doing about 100 over breaking even until recently, when I captured a bunch of new cities to obtain the diplomatic victory (all on my own votes; I disabled domination victory). Note that this is with the commerce slider set at 100 percent science, 0 gold, which it had been just about through the whole game.

I had meant to have the screen shot show the breakdown of the money, but as I recall it was about 62 from specialists, 200 or so from buildings (mostly the five shrines, obviously), and then increased 200 percent by buildings (principally wall street).

This had been my capital, but I moved that to my new main commerce/science city, which was a well suited city I'd captured from somebody else, and which was more centrally located. As you might see, this city was located off on its own in a frozen corner.

Next I'm going to try to do something similar with Saladin, so I can get even more GPPs (because of his philosophical trait).

Nice city, but I would probably want more than a single infantry defending something that nice.

Oh, I pretty much rule the seas at this point, plus I can bring in enough troops in by rail to take out anything the remaining opponnents could have landed.

The funny thing is Ceaser declared war on me (from the other side of the world) to try to take this city about 5 times, and kept having his little invasion forces wiped out. But I didn't have enough naval protection, and his little raids played havoc with my fishing boats.

Also see: Pilgrimage to Mecca

I did just try as Saladin, and did manage to get all 7 religions in one city! I also have a half dozen other cities now through a couple settlers used after landing the seventh religion, and taking a few cities off a civ that everybody else was attacking.

Money and gp points in Mecca are going to be huge. Maybe I'll post a seperate thread.

dude the city that was in the screenshot i saw u had 7069 gold!
ive never even gotton close to that!

My take on it (link in my signature if you want the gory details). It doesn't look like it, but thats a five-headed hydra. Monarch difficulty.



EDIT: can you guess which tile got pillaged in the war previous to this screenshot? haha

Immaculate said:

My take on it (link in my signature if you want the gory details). It doesn't look like it, but thats a five-headed hydra. Monarch difficulty.

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Picture would have been more convincing with the shrines scrolled into view on the buildings list. Of course, as long as we're on coulda shoulda woulda, the markers for the holy cities ought to be in front of the religious symbol. Maybe in the next patch - it looks like it ought to be an easy Mod.

Yeah, my buddy posted that in the thread i wrote up that game in but i had deleted my saves by then. I really wish i had it because you're like the third person to mention it. Oh well, live and learn i guess.

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SVV, what a luck with your city. 5 seafood, horses, uranium, coal and silver all in one city is just madness. INCREDIBLE. This would have been one of the best OCC starting sites ever.

This is a 7-shrine city. I'm waiting for the game to be accepted at the HOF (cheftaint, quick-game, diplomatic victory, small). I only build this city through the game, and I didn't build any military units...